Dash Hopes

Mono Black Counterspell Violation

so are all mono black counterspells breaks like withering boon, stormgald cabal,dash hopes and imp's mischief all breaks?

Yes.

Black Dash Dash Hopes Imp's Mischief Withering Boon

Planar Chaos Effect Distribution

"Planar Chaos was redividing the effects" were things like Black getting new access to a counterspell through Dash Hopes a part of this? If so, how does that create more room for purple?

Imagine there are a sixty effects divided between the five colors. (Note I’m guessing at the number.) Planar Chaos just redistributed the sixty effects among six colors, so ten per color rather than twelve.

Black Colors Dash Dash Hopes Planar Chaos

Absence of New Black Counterspells

There seem to be a decent number of old black counterspells. They weren’t necessarily good, but they were there. However, there don’t seem to be any newer black counterspells, the most recent one being Dash Hopes from Planar Chaos. Why’s that? What changed?

There are only two. Withering Boon is from the very early years of Magic (Mirage). Dash Hopes is a punisher card from the set messing with the color pie. I don’t believe counterspells were ever part of black’s color pie since we started monitoring it.

Black Color Pie Dash Dash Hopes Mirage Planar Chaos Withering Boon

Possibility of Black Counterspell

Can black ever get another counterspell like it got Dash hopes / withering bloon in the past or is that something the design team has no interest in making anymore.

If a second color is going to get a counterspell, I believe it would be white before black.

Black Colors Dash Dash Hopes White

Dash Hopes Trivia

For my birthday trivia can I have some about Dash Hopes?

Planar Chaos was a set where we created an alternate version of the color pie and in that version black had punisher spells instead of red.Happy Birthday!

Birthday Black Color Pie Colors Dash Dash Hopes Planar Chaos Red Spells

Green Counterspell Possibility

do you think it's possible for green to have counterspells if it is conditional? (i.e. Avoid fate, Dash hopes)

Green can grant hexproof to creatures at instant speed.

Avoid Fate Creatures Dash Dash Hopes Green Hexproof Instants

Black Counterspells

Doesn't Black have a counterspell? it's called dash hopes.

Dash Hopes was both from Planar Chaos (the set that messed with the color pie) and a “punisher” spell meaning the opponent had a choice between which effect the spell generated. Black did have a counterspell called Withering Boon in Mirage.

Black Color Pie Colors Counterspell Dash Dash Hopes Mirage Planar Chaos Withering Boon

White's Counter Spells

You mention white gets a little bit of countering but there are only three unconditional non blue counterspells. Dash Hopes, Lapse of Certainty, and Mana Tithe. Black and White each have an additional two conditional counters. Excluding Mana Tithe since the set it was in was all about changing the color pie it looks like white and black are equal in their counters. Neither has very many though and most of them are over a decade old.

I never said white got nonconditional counterspells.

Black Blue Color Pie Colors Dash Dash Hopes Lapse of Certainty Mana Mana Tithe White

Punisher Mechanic in Black

You said that Red has the "punisher mechanic", that is "let me have thing X or I punch you in the face.", ala Browbeat. Is the mechanic being red, combined with Planar Chaos's Colourshifting why Black got cards like Dash Hopes, Temporal Extortion, and probably other cards (Brain Gorgers and Phantasmagorian come to mind, but they don't give an alternative other than damage/life loss.) too, but never again afterwards?

Yes, we splashed the punisher mechanic in black in Planar Chaos.

Black Brain Gorgers Browbeat Dash Dash Hopes Mechanics Phantasmagorian Planar Chaos Red Temporal Extortion

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